Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
- Innovation Leadership Fellow in the Creative Economy
- Job Title
- Innovation Leadership Fellow in the Creative Economy
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- M.Johnson@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Haldane Building 24 Hill Street, Glasgow, G3 6RN
Biography
Dr Michael Pierre Johnson is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Design Innovation, with experience in ethnographic research and design-led approaches to inform product, digital, service and organisational innovation. Since gaining his PhD through the AHRC-funded knowledge exchange hub Design in Action in 2016, Michael was awarded an AHRC funded Innovation Leadership Fellowship in the Creative Economy.
His research interests are on making the effects and viability of creative work, design and innovation approaches, and the preferable changes they seek to serve, more explicit within complex collaborative contexts through methods of relational mapping and modelling. More recently, he has worked on multiple projects funded by the Design Museum's Future Observatory to support and evaluate co-creative projects and processes within the Green Transition.
Research Interests
actor-network mapping
creative and cultural ecosystems
developmental evaluation
innovation ecosystems
green and just transition
Latest Additions
- Dodd, Sarah, Wilson, Juliette, Zeinali, Shahrzad, Dick, Gillian, Currie, Etive, Johnson, Michael P and Bonner, James (2026) Every Tree Tells a Story: The role of the treescape in generating citizen wellbeing. Ecological Frontiers. ISSN 2950-5097
- Kimbell, Lucy, Morgan, Brian, Newell, Katrina, Beattie, Malcolm, Steel, Gillian, Magee, Justin, Johnson, Michael, O'Connor, Karl and Calderon, Edwar (2025) Sustainable Futures through Democratic Design: Towards Community-led Democratic Localism in Rathlin Island. Project Report. Belfast School of Art, Belfast.
- Canto-Farachala, Patricia, Smith, Madeline, Wise, Emily and Johnson, Michael (2024) Engaging for Sustainable Development and Transformation – Exploring the Concept of Transformative Academic Institutions. Triple Helix: A Journal of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship. pp. 1-32. ISSN 2197-1927
- Fonseca, Liliana, Downes, Ruth, Mendez, Carlos, Smith, Madeline and Johnson, Michael (2024) Innovation Strategies for System-level Transformation. Project Report. Scottish Universities Insights Institute, Glasgow.
- McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Johnson, Michael and Prosser, Zoe (2023) Place-based Research: Landscape Decision-making in Scotland Design Innovation & Land Assets (DI&L) Design Innovation & Cultural Resonances (Resonance). Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.
- Johnson, Michael (2023) A Co-Creative Climate: Participatory design’s emerging role for Glasgow’s sustainable development. Project Report. Future Observatory, London, UK.
- Caccavale, Elio, Johnson, Michael, LeGuennec, Aude, Cunningham, Margaret, Rattray, Zahra, Kerr, Fiona and Henriquez-Mui, Fiona (2022) Addressing Problem of Invisible Chronic Pain. The Scotsman. ISSN 0307-5850
- Caccavale, Elio, Johnson, Michael, Brijbassi, Sonya, Andreazza, Ana C. and Tokatlidis, Kostas (2022) Mitochondria and Us: From Exploration to Global Collective. The Biochemist, 44 (4). pp. 22-28. ISSN 0954-982X
- Johnson, Michael and Smith, Paul (2022) The Value of Nature-Based Enterprise. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.
- Johnson, Michael and MacKenna, Deirdre (2021) The Value of Creative Growth: Microcluster Networks in Argyll and Isles. Project Report. Culture Heritage Arts Assembly Argyll and Isles.
